A Touch of Crimson by Sylvia Day Series: Renegade Angels #1
Published by Signet on 10/4/11
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Format: eBook
Source: ARC, NetGalley
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Adrian Mitchell is a powerful angel leading an elite Special Ops unit of Seraphim. His task is to punish the Fallen-angels who have become vampires-and command a restless pack of indentured lycans. But Adrian has suffered his own punishment for becoming involved with mortals- losing the woman he loves again and again. Now, after nearly two hundred years, he has found her-Shadoe-her soul once more inhabiting a new body, with no memory of him. And this time, he won't let her go.
A Touch of Crimson is the first book in the Renegade Angels trilogy and the first book I’ve read by Sylvia Day. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will look into her other PNR/UF work.
Adrian Mitchell is Captain of the Sentinels, an elite group of angels sent to police the Fallen. I love that in the Renegade Angels world there is an angel hierarchy and that vampires and lycans were made from fallen angels. I also love that no one angel has the same color wings. Adrian’s are white with a touch of crimson as you can tell by the incredibly gorgeous cover that Tony Mauro did. Adrian’s purpose is to punish the Fallen, angels who have become vampires, and to keep his indentured lycans in line. Thing is eons ago Adrian secretly fell in love with a mortal woman and though she died her soul has been reincarnated many, many times. She always comes back to him and he always loses her no matter what he does to try to stop it. She is not only tied to Adrian, she is also tied to Syre, her father and first of the Fallen. Adrian recognizes Shadoe’s soul as soon as he sees her no matter what her mortal body looks like. At the start of this book, it’s been 200 years since his beloved Shadoe has been in his life. He is miserably lonely and just suffered a terrible loss. The second he sees Lindsay in the airport his life is turned upside-down.
Lindsay Gibson has always been different and has never felt like she fit in anywhere she’s been. She’s had to hide the darker side of herself and has never connected with anyone. She decides to pick up, move across country and start over. Little did she know that her move would bring someone into her life that not only understands her gift but truly gets her.
I enjoyed this book from the beginning; the world building, the character development. I felt for Adrian and all that he’s been through. He has suffered so much throughout his life and has such a huge responsibility with the rest of the Sentinels and the lycans. Last thing he needs is war to break out between the Sentinels, lycans and vampires but someone or something has created a disease that is infecting the vampires and making them little more than rabid beasts. On top of that, the lycans have a pack member that shows alpha traits (which isn’t allowed) and are hoping that he will free them and lead them to their salvation. Who is responsible for the turmoil? Angel, vampire or lycan?
A Touch of Crimson was a book I found myself saying “just one more chapter and I’ll put it aside” but just couldn’t do it. Once I got sucked into the world I was hooked and needed to know what happened next. The chemistry between Adrian and Lindsay was HOT. That being said, as much as I liked the main characters in this book the character that stood out to me the most was Elijah, the reluctant alpha lycan. He seems like such a good guy and like Adrian he is thrown into a mess he doesn’t know how to clean up. I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book, A Hunger So Wild, which is Elijah’s story. I give A Touch of Crimson 4 stars.
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I really liked it too! I haven’t read A Hunger So Wild yet but I think this is a series that I am just going to enjoy reading overall!
Great Review Mel!
I love this series!! I just wish it were more than three books. Sylvia Day has created an amazing world and I can’t get enough of it. A Hunger So Wild was even better than A Touch of Crimson if you can believe that. Hope you enjoy Elijah as much as I did.
Oh, this sounds right up my alley. I’ve just added this to my TBR list!
Great review.
This series is made of awesome! Hope you enjoy the Renegade Angels world as much as I do.
Ooh, this one sounds really good! I spotted it on Goodreads, mostly because of the wings, but was in an anti-angel mood so I didn’t pick it up. But I love that we meet these characters at a seriously low point in both of their lives and they connect. Plus, great chemistry? Nice.
This isn’t your typical angel series. A majority of the angels are fallen and are either vampire or lycan. The world Sylvia Day has created is very unique and I was immediately sucked in. I hope you’ll give it a chance. Maybe you’ll love it as much as I did.
After reading the novella, Mel, I’m hella interested in this series! I also love Fallen Angel stuff and don’t read enough of it. I’m damn interested in the world-building, too.
How awesome is Raze? Since you liked A Dark Taste of Rapture and are a fan of fallen angels I think you’ll really enjoy the series. A Touch of Crimson was actually released before the novella so it left out a lot of world building. Since you are really into world building I think you’ll like the series even more once you get into this book. These books just get better-and-better and I am totally in lurve with Elijah uh I mean this series. *grins*
Right before this book first came out I was so excited to read it, then I started to read reviews where people really didn’t like the story. I guess all of those so-so ratings of the book got to me and I never picked up a copy. I recently read my first book by Day though and enjoyed it so I’m looking forward to reading this one now and her other books.
Thanks for the great review, you helped to change my mind about reading this book.
I’m glad I was able to convince you to give the book a try. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Ooo…I have the novella. The cover is delicious. I like those recycled romances if done well.
There are two novella’s in the series so far. Which one do you have? A Taste of Rapture is listed as a prequel but was released after A Touch of Crimson so she left out a lot of the world building. Just keep that in mind if you read it and feel a bit lost. That being said, Raze is a seriously hot vampire I’m sure you’ll enjoy spending time with.
Tony Mauro does great work doesn’t he? I love how he really captured the beauty of Adrian’s wings on the cover. Hope you love the Renegade Angels world as much as I do.
I read A Taste of Rapture during Doin it Dirty. RAZE is hot shite, Amy!
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